United States ex rel. Johanson v. Phelps

(after stating the facts as above). The foundation stone of argument for relators is that they are not immigrants. This must be emphasized, both to do justice to the legal propositions advanced by relators’ counsel, and to dissipate a certain illogicality arising from the de*681partmental decision in Ee Leskova. That young woman, like all the rest, stoutly denies that she wishes to remain permanently in the United States; she is a tourist or visitor whose one purpose is to visit her mother, yet she has been excluded (inter alia) because she is likely to become a public charge. Such ground of…